It reads Funeral right side up and Lil Wayne upside down. The calligraphic text on the cover features a rotational ambigram. In an interview leading up to the album's release, Lil Wayne explained the title Funeral as a continuation of his album Rebirth in 2010, to follow-up on the series. The album also contains 24 tracks on the standard edition and 8 tracks on the deluxe edition, honoring Kobe Bryant's jersey numbers with the Los Angeles Lakers. The track "Bing James" concludes with 24 seconds of silence, paying tribute to the death of Kobe Bryant. Self-discovery, rebirth – call it whatever you want to call it but it feels awesome, I swear to God. Now, it's let me see what I come up with. it was just me going to the studio and saying, let me kill ten more songs and then I'm going to go home or do whatever I was doing. I can't wait to get in the studio now every night, just to see what I can come up with. I love the difficulty of trying to fit in with what's going on today, making sure I sound likeable to the ears today and having to remind myself that it's not about what it was back then. In an interview with Vibe, Lil Wayne spoke on how his recording process changed throughout his career, saying: The album was completed in 2019, as Wayne started promoting the album again. On Tha Carter V, Wayne opened up about his depression and the real story behind gunshot wound that nearly killed him at the age of 12, so the symbolically titled Funeral is also expected to address some weightier material.įuneral is set for release on 31 January and can be pre-saved here.In 2016, while Lil Wayne was in the midst of the legal battle with Cash Money Records over contractual disputes, it was announced that his next album would be titled Funeral. The New Orleans icon also reunited with Birdman and Juvenile for the trio’s ‘Ride Dat’ single earlier this summer. Last week, Wayne partnered with ESPN in celebration of the College Football Playoff National Championship game to release the catchy track ‘Playoff’, featuring Poppy H, Corey Henry & The Treme Funktet. Following the tour, the rapper connected with Blink drummer Travis Barker and Rick Ross on the collaborative single ‘Gimme Brain’, for Barker new label, DTA Records. This past year saw Wayne team up with blink-182 for a massive co-headlining tour across North America. Hailed by critics and fans alike, Pitchfork noted, “The long-delayed album captures Wayne how we want to remember him: openhearted, word-drunk, and exhilarated by the possibilities of his own versatility”. A post shared by Lil Wayne on at 3:18pm PSTįuneral follows the massive success of Lil Wayne’s long-awaited album Tha Carter V, which debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 with the second-largest streaming week for an album of all time.
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